Can't see too many mysteries here. Having somehow managed to get a government to play with, the Tories are merely behaving as their kind always do, and as they probably can't help doing, and securing their own interests and those of their families, chums and those of various others who may have done or will do them favours. Or vote for them.
Of course fox hunting isnt 'pest control'. That may be an incidental outcome, sometimes, but everyone knows that it's an activity indulged in by those with access to land and horses and a certain amount of privilege purely and simply because it's fun. That some pretend otherwise reflects how sure of themselves they feel, how stupid they think the rest of us are, their shamelessness, and, quite probably, their own inability to understand that we're not taken in by any of their bluster.
Similarly with the raising of the inheritance tax threshold. That's nothing at all about 'rewarding hard work', it's about rewarding precisely the opposite, and taking for you and yours as much wealth, generated in very, very many cases by sheer luck in having a house in the right part of the country at the right time, as you can possibly grab. Their children will be lottery winners, nothing more. Attempts to pretend otherwise are highly disingenuous and are most emphatically not the terms in which such good fortune is discussed around the kitchen supper tables of the Cotswolds. I imagine.
But this is what the country voted for.
